#veganism is accessable

[endreal]

I think veganism is a really cool lifestyle for people who are able to access it safely and healthily. But one thing I've struggled with a lot in talking to vegans, especially political and philosophical vegans, that I've personally met (important caveat) is the alarming way some of them have talked about the natural world. Strikingly, one conversation I remember having a couple years ago involved some fairly conventional statistics about environmental impacts of animal agribusiness and urban sprawl that culminated in some less-statistically-based conclusions about how human development is wholesale bad for the ecosystem, and given that we both lived in a medium-sized city, I responded (as close to verbatim as I remember) "But this is an ecosystem. We live here." and this was clearly not the correct response for my conversation partner, who doubled down and then pivoted to a different talking point.

And, like, this made my stomach sink to hear. I'm by no means a perfect (and by most metrics possibly not even "good") ecology person; I mean, I've lived in fuckin colonized America for the overwhelming majority of my life. But I do care deeply about the places I live - I make an honest effort to try and notice the wildlife that I share space with, talk to bees, learn the names of ditch flowers and weeds, and identify local plants vs introduced ones and do what I can to be mindful of how my actions impact them. To talk with someone who on the surface shared those values but scratching just below the surface felt more like "nature good. humans bad. bad humans, bad." was gutting. I don't live in some separate reality from the grass and squirrels and sweetgum trees in my neighborhood. The sort of moralism and mindset of abstenant anthropic stewardism they expressed resounded in the part of my brain that remembers growing up in an evangelical Christian bubble. I still struggle to understand how someone who wants so passionately to make the world a better place can reconcile that goal when their rhetoric sounds like the secular eco-version of the armageddonist worldview I grew up around.

It hurts a little bit. The world is literally not a walled garden to tended, partitioned off from humanity. It's an open space, sprawling and full of weird weeds and beasties, and also I live here and you do and they do too and we all deserve to have the best environment we can create for ourselves. All of us.

This is an ecosystem. We live here.

#I guess this post is less about veganism than it is about an epistemoligical conversation that was framed by talk of veganism #Cos - as stated - I think plant-based diets and lifestyles are rad as hell if you're able to access them safely and healthily #And I guess I'm still just a little upset that someone I hoped to find shared ground with #Found the source of their passion in a place that (to me) screamed of danger

[matt-w-blogging]

Reasons why I frequently make my friends and family baked goods/confections:

So they'll never feel desperate enough to betray me for turkish delight

Love I guess

#look the boy was on sugar rations and like eleven #his prefrontal cortex still had fourteen more years to develop and war rationing certainly wasn't helping that #however i am blessed with access to a variety of foods including sugars #i have even gone to the lengths of perfecting a chocolate cake recipe that is gluten-free and vegan and as good as its normal counterpart #because nobody in my family can eat anything lmao #anyway if youve read all this and want the recipe lmk and i can share it #narnia #edmund pevensie #ed pevensie #the chronicles of narnia #chronicles of narnia #edmund narnia #narnia edmund #food #food ment #food cw #cw food #tw food #food tw #food mention

[oediex]

The zero-waste shop is closed on Sundays and Mondays, so on Saturdays I have to make sure to buy plenty of vegetables, but today I have an additional plan. I dig my little cloth bread bag from the kitchen drawer, because maybe, just maybe, there'll be some vegan croissants left. They have them sometimes, but often I'm too late.

I see the sign before I've even parked. "Vegan pastries" and an invitational arrow inside. I quickly lock my bicycle and rush inside.

"Are there any vegan pastries left?" I ask, and when they assure me there are still a few, I pull out my little bag and add, "You're not going to believe this."

As I carefully pick out my preferred pastries - one croissant, one chocolate roll, and one cream-filled pastry covered with chocolate - I chat to the cashier about the lack of pastries not involving animal exploitation and suffering.

"It's the one thing I really miss," I tell her. "I hate that I can't just walk into the bakery or the grocery store and buy vegan croissants."

"Same," she says. "We've been noticing an increase in demand, so we have them twice a week now, and more than we used to!"

Music to my ears.

#vegan #vegan food #zero waste shop #zero waste #pastries #croissants #honestly it was fate or something #they were so good #i even told her about recently telling the vegan discord that if there's one thing I miss it's pastries #anyone else? 😭 #like we have excellent pastry culture in my country #the cream-filled one covered in chocolate has been my favourite since I were a child and is a staple that I have especially been missing #usually vegan pastries are croissants and cinnamon rolls #so I was very happy to find my childhood favourite veganised!!!! #I'll put a picture in the comments #one day one day please one day we will have access to vegan pastries easily please #writing #my writing #a story every day #18 may #2024

[sleeping-satan]

#I finally have access to polls #I have a very important question #and yes its actual curiosity #vegan #polls #random shit

[veganymph]

if you actually thought veganism was an inaccessible diet for people, then you’d advocate for it to be more accessible for the average person.. like it already is

#my post #‘i support veganism but it’s inaccessible’ well you clearly don’t support it if you do nothing to 1. be vegan and 2. advocate for #‘accessible’ veganism. as if it’s not cheap and insanely easy to follow once you get into the swing of it #vegan #veganism #go vegan #vegan alternatives

[artists-ache]

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[paging-possum]

If I were a smarter man I would have a lot of things to say about how vegan/vegetarian diets are accommodated vs how other dietary restrictions/allergies are accommodated. But I am not a smarter man. So I will sit here and be frustrated at the existence of ‘plant-based week’ happening while I regularly have to walk halfway across campus just to get food I can eat in the mornings

#I think it’s good that overall there are more options for other people #like I don’t think it’s BAD that vegan and vegetarian people have more options #I just wish the same time and energy was brought to other dietary restrictions u know #and it’s not like I don’t have options it’s just annoying that the options are noticeably more out of the way/difficult to access #which is frustrating! especially when I want to get food with friends

[free-range-tiddies]

I'm doing somebody's research paper on living with food based allergies. It's really a crime that pro-health/vegan friendly/allergen friendly foods are this fucking expensive. Also the fact that poor people are financially barred from accessing them.

#veganism has its DOWNS and isn't the end-all solution to this world's problems #but damn at least make it fucking accessible #tha kid talks #[offline] #wish queue were here

[typomachine]

Hello vegans,

I have an ask...

When disabled people talk about their diets or dietary restrictions, you need to hush.

Our diet and health is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. No, it is not caring or helpful when you offer advice on diet or health. It is harassment.

I'd ask reasonable vegans to please watch out for this eco-fascist eugenicist non-sense in your community.

There are some very dedicated vegan trolls out there that harass and suicide bait disabled, indigenous/ native, and poor people.

When we (disabled folks) talk about eco-fasc vegans, we're not talking about you if you aren't one of the trolls engaging in bigotry and harassment. You've got a reall ableism problem in your community. Take the ableism up with the ableists, not with the disabled folks pointing it out.

Thanks,

#I'm sorry people joke about vegans #they talk very seriously about letting people like me die #vegan #disabled #food safety #mutal aid #accessibility #accommodation #mcas #mast cell diseases #mast cell activation syndrome #food allergies #stop being ableist #veganism

[vaaarnarebog]

challenge:

tell me the trait that makes animals unworthy of respect and happy lives, why is it okay to hurt and kill them?

animals don't speak? some people don't either

they aren't as smart as humans? babies eint that smart either

they are alive to be eaten? would it be ok to breed people for food?

it goes on and on, any trait you can think of doesn't stand up when you put it on a human or even an animal you love because you cant morally justify hurting and killing a being that wants to live and be happy.

please just think (even do some research about what their lives and deaths are like) and do something about it.

#vegan #carnist #i m sane and normal and dont want to hurt others or myself affirmaacija #everyone WHO CAN should be vegan #i will be responding and answering genuine chill people #i will be blocking assholes #and i will only responding with what i know from the top of my head if you want numbers n details use the search function of your browser #as you clearly have access to the internet #the suffering the animals go through in their short lives is worse than you think #put a loved animal in the cows/pigs/chickens/fishes/etc place and you will understand why i am so fucking outraged and sad #for why you can substitute a farmed animal for a pet see post above #there is no trait that separates and makes one worthy of love and the other unworthy #great post hit send post i am gonna cry now wha #post!

[honey-stick]

i'm using vegetarian as an umbrella term for vegan, vegetarian, eggitarian, and all the different ways plant based diets can be.

meat-eater here refers to anyone who eats any meats (chicken, beef, pork, etc) regularly in their diets, or generally chooses not to abstain from them

#personally i consider pescetarian to just be a subcategory meat-eater bc fish are meat but my pescetarian friends end up eating like me #(vegeterian) most of the time since they dont have access to fish always. ive been vegetarian my whole life & curious to how uncommon it is #remaking this poll because the last one was badly formatted #polls #poll #vegetarian #vegan #food #meat #dietary habits #mine

[brightlotusmoon]

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Diary Of A Mom:

Friends, please take a minute to read this. It’s important for this community and it’s really important to me.

Ableisim is a sneaky little sucker. Like every other kind of bigotry, it’s insidious. It’s woven into the fabric of just about everything we touch. We’re so used to seeing it - and contributing to it - that it is simply part of the background. If we’re not actively looking for it, we’ll likely pass it right by without a second glance.

It sucks when someone points out that we are being inadvertently ableist. It’s an awful feeling to hear that we are perpetuating any of the harm to which we would never consciously subscribe, so our first instinct when it’s pointed out is often defense and justification.

The other day, when I posted what I thought was a silly, fun photo of a package of bananas, it turned out to be far, far more. It turned out to be an opportunity to learn.

You may remember that the bananas were from South Korea, and that they were ingeniously packaged together, from very unripe green all the way to ready-to-eat yellow. They were encased in plastic and designed to allow the consumer to have one every day without the others rotting.

There was a chorus of comments on that post calling out the use of plastic where it was “totally unnecessary” and “ludicrously wasteful.” There were more deriding the “laziness” of anyone who would buy such a “ridiculous” product. A ton more pointing out how “simple” and “easy” it is to simply pull bunches apart ourselves, picking whichever ones we might want.

A number of commenters tried to explain why it’s far less wasteful than it might appear, why it may actually be necessary for those who can’t shop often - or do their own shopping at all - and / or who don’t have the dexterity to pull apart six different bunches of bananas to create the perfect grouping. Some explained why “just asking for help” isn’t the simple solution it may sound like it is, particularly for those for who are nonspeaking and / or communication is a challenge.

One even took the time to research it for us and shared some great information. (Thank you, Andria!) Paraphrasing what she wrote …

The bananas are treated with a preservative before they are sealed into plastic. The packaging then keeps them shelf stable for WEEKS so that people who cannot go to the market frequently or who do not have space to store large amounts of food can have access to fresh produce for a longer period of time.

She explained that they are often stocked in vending machines in assisted living facilities, for example.

“Ultimately,” she said, “they're largely only offered to people who need them like this for ACCESSIBILITY reasons!!!”

It also happens, she added, that South Korea is one of the world's best ranked nations in terms of recycling and trash management, so we can unclutch our pearls on that front, too.

Truthfully, when I posted the photo, I hadn’t thought of it from the perspective of accessibility. Rather, I’d thought of it as a great idea and a fabulous convenience. But one person’s convenience is another’s necessity. What may look to one like “laziness” may just be the other’s only access ramp.

I’m using that post as an example, but it’s just one in a series of rabbit holes we’ve wound our way down here in the last few days alone.

I humbly submit that if we’re ever going to change these patterns, to excavate and ultimately eliminate the ableism inherent in our thinking, we need to change our reactions.

We need to take a beat before we instinctually deride something as lazy or wasteful or rude or disrespectful. To examine our thought process and test it. And when we are called in by others, we desperately need to stop rationalizing and justifying and start listening. Stop explaining *ourselves* and start hearing *each other.*

Most of all, we need to stop professing that we’d never be purposefully ableist and start proving it, precisely by owning the moments in which we inadvertently are, and working to do better going forward. (Me wholeheartedly included.)

Thanks for reading, and thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being here.

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#diary of a mom #the history of ableism #casual ableism #being disabled sometimes means needing to eat things others don't approve of #being disabled means having a very dark sense of humor #being disabled means living my life in ways people don't like #oh to live in a supportive accessible world #disability advocacy #it's not about the straws #its not about the straws #shut up abled people #no i can't go vegan or do yoga

[richarlisonny]

already peaked in 2023 (made vegan mac n cheese that tasted pretty much as good as non-vegan mac n cheese)

#i need access to strong vegan cheeses 24/7/365 NOT just at christmas

[lewisbian]

Lewis kicking people out of his account in the funniest thing I've seen today

Lewis kicking ppl out specifically to let spinz in and also liking tweets from people begging him to open the damn doors is actually the funniest thing ever

#he dgaf ik he was laughing at the girls offering vegan curry in exchange for access

[oofouch]

the danger of calling anyone who acknowledges the legitimate strain placed by human population on sustainable and equitable resource management “ecofascist” is that it disables the left from creating sustainable and equitable solutions to the issue and allows conservatives, capitalists, and eugenicists to hijack the entire narrative. it’s really not the human rights dunk u guys think it is.

#this website loves science denialism as much as the right #ecofascism #ecofascist #fascism #veganism #vegan #environmentalism #development #reproductive freedom #sex education #birth control access #vegans

[ukulelegodparent]

I'm turning into that "I want to study in xy" meme but like unironically

#I follow too many Polish people on here like legit you people and your store posting istg #like yes I DO want to go to biedronka ok? I do want to go to żabka on a sunday and make a tumblr post about it. are you happy now? #plus also me and wanting to move to austria for vegan mango lassi access at Billa 😌 #I'm a clown and I'm participating in clown behaviour #but at least I'm aware of it so you know. less of a clown than someone who lives in denial #or something